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Kent State faculty and students stormed the 142nd American Public Health Association annual conference in New Orleans November 15-19, with 11 oral and seven poster presentations. Topics ranged from post-disaster communication to influenza vaccine uptake, and some 13 Golden Flashes were there to share findings of their work with the more than 12,000 delegates.

A poster presentation regarding scales and analytics in the geography of obesity. Heather Beaird, PhD, and colleagues. A second poster presentation by Beaird, Dana Mowls, MPH ’12, and colleagues, regarding the use of large administrative data for community health assessment to inform issue prioritization at the local level.

A second poster presentation by Kenne and Birmingham, along with doctoral student Daniel Mix and MPH student Samantha Lingenfelter, BASc ’10, regarding characteristics of e-cigarette users, perceptions of harm and reasons for use among college students.

A process evaluation of the brief alcohol screening intervention for college students program, a poster presentation by Hallam and colleagues. A second poster presentation by Hallam and an associate regarding facilitators and barriers to successful implementation of in-school physical activity policy in the Mississippi Delta.